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Howard & Betty White Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $597k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $345k
- $250k+1 grant · $333k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MENLO PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $333,333 |
| HOPE UNLIMITED | $130,000 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $120,000 |
| YOUTH REACH | $95,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $45,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $40,000 |
| PENINSULA BALL FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES | $35,000 |
| PENINSULA HUMANE SOCIETY | $30,000 |
| HOPE INSITIUTE | $30,000 |
| BIBLE STUDY FELLOESHIP | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $26,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $25,000 |
| PATHWAYS HOSPICE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $306k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
37 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $419k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
Mercy Ships International8× · 2017–2025 · $627k · revenue +303%- YLYOUNG LIFE7× · 2017–2024 · $480k · revenue +59%
- RCRiekes Center for Human Enhancement7× · 2017–2024 · $298k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- HUHOPE UNLIMITED INT'Lone grant, 2017 · $126k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $17k
- MAMP ATHERTON ED FDNone grant, 2017 · $12k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…
To transform the lives of prisoners, their families, and victims through a global network of ministry partners.
Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.
Our mission is to accelerate the great commission by equipping leaders, developing networks, and catalyzing collaboration toward spiritual breakthroughs among the least reached peoples and places of the world.
The immigration institute of the bay area helps immigrants, refugees, and their families join and contribute to the community.
The los angeles mission breaks the cycle of homelessness and poverty, by stabilizing people in a safe and spiritual environment, connecting them to solutions and walking with them on their journey.
Medical teams international is a christian humanitarian relief agency focused on providing life-saving medical care for people in crisis.
Pacific school of religion prepares a diverse cadre of spiritually rooted leaders with the vision, resilience, and skill to create a world where all can thrive. grounded in the rigorous study and faithful practice of progressive christian…
International needs has the vision to transform lives and change communities by helping christian nationals serve both god and neighbor within their own countries.
Spiritual awakening and training youth leaders.
Entrust's mission is to multiply church leaders through accessible, locally owned, reproducible training systems. this is accomplished through facilitated learning, assisting christians in gaining solid understanding of scripture, and…
Provide relief to the poor and distressed by sharing the love of god in word and deed, we accomplish this through mercy missions, leadership training and community outreaches.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cityteam Ministries and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 52 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds YOUTHREACH ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Riekes Center for Human Enhancement ↗
- Who funds THE PENINSULA BALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CITYTEAM MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION BRIDGES ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA VOLUNTEERS INC ↗
- Who funds Pets In Need ↗
- Who funds JOBTRAIN INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Floyd Family Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Atkinson Foundation · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Howard & Betty White Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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